Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Dream
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
-Thomas Jefferson
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Dream is not what you see in your sleep, it is the thing which does not let you sleep.
-A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
-William Faulkner
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy"
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams
-Dejan Stojanović
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
-Marsha Norman
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
